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Secondary education and international labor mobility: Evidence from the natural experiment in the Philippines

Sakai, Yoko; Masuda, Kazuya - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-22

International labor mobility is a key factor for a well-functioning labor market. Although educational attainment is known to affect regional labor mobility within a country, evidence of a relationship between schooling and international labor mobility is limited, particularly in developing...

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Transnational social mobility of minorities: A comparative analysis of 14 immigrant minority groups

Kislev, Elyakim - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 15, pp. 1-21

with that of migration and addresses this gap by developing a theory of a growing phenomenon: the transnational social …

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Bilateral labor agreements and the migration of Filipinos: An instrumental variable approach

O'Steen, Brianna - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-29

Bilateral labor agreements (BLAs) are preferred policy models for regulating migration by many governments around the … following analysis answers the question "Do BLAs affect the migration outflows of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs)?" using a … drive migration. However, BLAs have statistically significant effects on gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and exports …

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Labor migration in Indonesia and the health of children left behind

Ng, James - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 10 (2019) 2, pp. 1-16

Economic research on labor migration in the developing world has traditionally focused on the role played by the … microdata, more attention has been paid to the effects of migration on the lives of family members left behind. This paper … examines how the temporary migration of parents for work affects the health outcomes of children left behind using the …

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Age at immigration matters for labor market integration - the Swedish example

Gustafsson, Bjorn Anders; Mac Innes, Hanna; Österberg, … - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 1, pp. 1-23

This paper analyses how age at immigration to Sweden and getting a first foothold in the labor market is related. We estimate hazard rate models using registry data on all persons who arrived in each of the years 1990, 1994, 1998, and 2002. The results show that the number of years taken to get...

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Staying in the cities or returning home? An analysis of the rural-urban migration behavior in Vietnam

Nguyen, Loc Duc; Grote, Ulrike; Sharma, Rasadhika - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 3, pp. 1-18

This paper investigates the migration behavior of rural-urban migrants within Vietnam. It focuses on the length and … intensity of migration and its respective determinants. The analysis uses panel data of 2200 rural households and data from a … length of migration is also observed among migrants and households with higher human capital. Furthermore, a decreased income …

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The impact of host language proficiency across the immigrants' earning distribution in Spain

Budría, Santiago; de Ibarreta, Carlos Martinez; … - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 12, pp. 1-27

This paper explores the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrant earnings in Spain using an instrumental variable quantile regression approach. The impact is on average roughly 17.2% but varies substantially across the earning distribution. The return to destination language...

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Illegal immigration and media exposure: Evidence on individual attitudes

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Puglisi, Riccardo - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 14, pp. 1-36

Illegal immigration has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, but little is known about the drivers of individual attitudes towards illegal immigrants. To study this question, we use the CCES survey, which was carried out in 2006 in the USA. We find evidence that-in addition to...

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Land tenure policy and off-farm employment in rural China

Chang, Hongqin; Ai, Ping; Li, Yuan - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 9, pp. 1-28

Using the data from the three waves (1995, 2002, and 2008) of the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP), this paper investigates the impact of land tenure security on farmers' labor market outcomes in rural China. To identify the effect of land tenure security, this paper used...

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The effect of immigration shocks on native fertility outcomes: Evidence from a natural experiment

Seah, Kelvin K. C. - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 18, pp. 1-34

This paper investigates whether immigration shocks have a causal effect on native fertility patterns. It uses a natural experiment, exploiting the large, unexpected and localised immigration of Cuban nationals to the Miami area in the USA in 1980 to examine the fertility consequences for...

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